Thursday, December 27, 2007
Merry Christmas!
So we traveled to the great state of MN and DeForest, WI for Christmas with Travis and Christi's families. We had some good food and laughs with some college friends and a great time with the newest additions to the fam, our new nephew Michael (5 months) and Christi's cousin's twins, Madeline and Riley (4 months). We also got lots of great advice on baby stuff, lots of time with Michael, and the wonderful scent of baby on Christi's shoulder (every time Trav would give me a hug he would comment how I have 'baby perfume' on)! Christi was also able to amaze everyone with how big she has gotten since Thanksgiving (thanks to our little mama). Trav is definitely very good at making Michael smile, showing our other nephew Kenny how to snowboard (and hitting the brick house and rain gutter himself while trying to snowboard on a sled), play Guitar Hero (again Kenny's newest gift) and falling asleep amid the chaos of baby crying and present opening! He is going to be an amazing dad! The first picture is our nephew Kenny tickling his new brother Michael. The second is Christi's dad, Archie, and stepmom, Judy, at Christmas (before we watched the Vikings lose!). The third is Trav playing with Michael.
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Our New Addition
On November 28th, the day before our 4 year wedding anniversary, we found out that we are going to have a little girl! Our due date is around April 20th. We included our ultrasounds pictures, which I am sure will be hard for some to recognize. We'll do our best to explain each pic to you! Enjoy!
This first picture shows her little feet. You can kinda see her footprints and then a few toes if you look real hard!!
On the second photo you see her legs, as if she is laying on her side and crossing her legs. The circular part is her tummy. The next two small circles to the right of the tummy are her knees, and below each knee are her femurs. The feet are crossed on the far right side of the page.
This third photo are her hands. It is again as if she is laying on her side looking at you. Her hands are in front of her face, but you can't see her face here. You can see her fingers, also.
The last pic is her face. You see a semi-circular thing with a large black oval shaped hole. The oval-shaped hole is her forehead. Below that (to the right) are two eyes that are just black small circles, then the faint shadows of a nose and mouth, and finally her chin.
This first picture shows her little feet. You can kinda see her footprints and then a few toes if you look real hard!!
On the second photo you see her legs, as if she is laying on her side and crossing her legs. The circular part is her tummy. The next two small circles to the right of the tummy are her knees, and below each knee are her femurs. The feet are crossed on the far right side of the page.
This third photo are her hands. It is again as if she is laying on her side looking at you. Her hands are in front of her face, but you can't see her face here. You can see her fingers, also.
The last pic is her face. You see a semi-circular thing with a large black oval shaped hole. The oval-shaped hole is her forehead. Below that (to the right) are two eyes that are just black small circles, then the faint shadows of a nose and mouth, and finally her chin.
Sunday, December 2, 2007
More Vacation fun photos
Since it took us so long to get this going, we are catching up with photos and fun times.
We also had some fun with some sporting events. Trav played in his annual Alumni Rugby Tourney in Madison (alumni against the current UW team) while Christi did the Danskin Triathlon in Pleasant Prairie (on the border of WI and IL near Kenosha) and the St. Paul Rollerblade Marathon with sister Rachel. Trav would love to tell you that he spends the entire year working out just for this one game, but that is really not true. But he does like to beat up on the younger players!
River in in downtown St. Paul and is very pretty when it doesn't have sucky weather! Very cold rain the entire time and I wasn't even close to my goal time. It was great that Rachel did it this year with me. As always, the fans are great and the atmosphere fun, but the rain made it the worse race I have ever done. I think Rachel would agree too!!! Thank God for Mom and Jerry and Trav waiting at the finish line with rain coats and smiles!
Over Easter Trav and I met my family in the Abacos, Bahamas for a family reunion. My uncle and aunt took their sailboat and sailed through the Great Lakes, down the east coast, and we met them in the Bahamas for some fun in the sun, snorkeling, laying around, and SHARKS!! The group photo of the diving trip includes my mom and Jerry, my uncles John and Bill, and Trav and I along with other people on the diving trip that I don't know. The last group photo is on my uncle and aunt's boat with the rest of the family, as dressed in our JOHESA shirts!
We also had some fun with some sporting events. Trav played in his annual Alumni Rugby Tourney in Madison (alumni against the current UW team) while Christi did the Danskin Triathlon in Pleasant Prairie (on the border of WI and IL near Kenosha) and the St. Paul Rollerblade Marathon with sister Rachel. Trav would love to tell you that he spends the entire year working out just for this one game, but that is really not true. But he does like to beat up on the younger players!The Triathlon was great. This was an all-women's tri, which is much less stressful than the co-ed tri I did last year. I did the sprint distance (1/2 mile swim, 12 mile bike, 5k run), which is 
double what I did last year, my first tri, and I made it. Quite a feat for someone who is scared of swimming. Many thanks to my sister Rachel for all the time she put in helping me learn to swim at the Y back home. Now I know how to breathe when I swim! Very important!
The rollerblade marathon was treacherous and miserable. The trail is along the Mississippi
Finally
So we have finally got this thing together and have stuff to put up on our blog!!
We started in Arches and hiked through lots of beautiful places, the best is the Landscape Arch (on the left, the size of a football field). We camped in the La Sal-Manti National Forest and, as you can see, the view from 'base camp' (our tent) was incredible! Had fun listening to wolves at night. It took us 1 hour every day
to drive down the mountain back to Moab. Trav had to go whitewater rafting, so we hit the Colorado and this time had to paddle all the way through (we went rafting on the Colorado when we were at the Grand Canyon but it was a motorized boat). Had a great time and the experience made Trav officially a whitewater guru, of sorts.
Next was Canyonlands. I loved this place. The lands looks like a giant dinosaur stepped in mud many years ago and now an imprint is all that is left. Trav decided it would be fun to take our rental (an SUV) down the 4x4 trail(where we only saw Jeeps). Many times, as I looked out my passenger window, all I could see was what felt like hundreds of feet straight down the side of the canyon. Once we left Canyonlands, for some strange reason, our SUV had lots of rattling...HMMMMMM
Bryce was awesome! We hiked into the hoodoos (those tall spires you see), went on a full moon hike, and did some horseback riding. Camping was quite cold there. The only day that I picked up a newspaper (only to have paper to burn), it said that Bryce was the coldest place in the lower 48 that night. But our sleeping bags we got for Christmas worked wonders (thanks Mom and Jerry!).
Next was Zion and our most challenging hike by far. We 
hiked, over two days, the 14 miles down the 'Narrows,' the Virgin River that cuts through Zion. The actual trail is the river and was incredibly difficult. Thank God that the current was low- some have had to swim down the river instead of hike. Needless to say we were wet the entire time and exhausted once we hit our campsite the first day. But there is nothing better than camping next to a river! The second day 
we saw what they mean by 'Narrows,' walls of rock as high up as 2000 feet on either side of us! Breathtaking. We didn't get a chance to explore the rest of Zion like we would have liked, but the Narrows was the highlight of our trip!
Our summer (yes, we know it's officially winter for most of you) was incredibly fun. In May we traveled to Utah and did some major backpacking through Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Bryce (we camped in 32 degrees) and Zion. Best vacation I have ever had! I had trouble keeping up with Travis sometimes, as he is the super hiker, but once he got a blister on his heel, I could!
We started in Arches and hiked through lots of beautiful places, the best is the Landscape Arch (on the left, the size of a football field). We camped in the La Sal-Manti National Forest and, as you can see, the view from 'base camp' (our tent) was incredible! Had fun listening to wolves at night. It took us 1 hour every day
to drive down the mountain back to Moab. Trav had to go whitewater rafting, so we hit the Colorado and this time had to paddle all the way through (we went rafting on the Colorado when we were at the Grand Canyon but it was a motorized boat). Had a great time and the experience made Trav officially a whitewater guru, of sorts.
Next was Canyonlands. I loved this place. The lands looks like a giant dinosaur stepped in mud many years ago and now an imprint is all that is left. Trav decided it would be fun to take our rental (an SUV) down the 4x4 trail(where we only saw Jeeps). Many times, as I looked out my passenger window, all I could see was what felt like hundreds of feet straight down the side of the canyon. Once we left Canyonlands, for some strange reason, our SUV had lots of rattling...HMMMMMM
On our drive to Bryce, we stopped at Capitol Reef for a quick hike and found beautiful petroglyphs (ancient drawings).
Bryce was awesome! We hiked into the hoodoos (those tall spires you see), went on a full moon hike, and did some horseback riding. Camping was quite cold there. The only day that I picked up a newspaper (only to have paper to burn), it said that Bryce was the coldest place in the lower 48 that night. But our sleeping bags we got for Christmas worked wonders (thanks Mom and Jerry!).
Next was Zion and our most challenging hike by far. We 
hiked, over two days, the 14 miles down the 'Narrows,' the Virgin River that cuts through Zion. The actual trail is the river and was incredibly difficult. Thank God that the current was low- some have had to swim down the river instead of hike. Needless to say we were wet the entire time and exhausted once we hit our campsite the first day. But there is nothing better than camping next to a river! The second day 
we saw what they mean by 'Narrows,' walls of rock as high up as 2000 feet on either side of us! Breathtaking. We didn't get a chance to explore the rest of Zion like we would have liked, but the Narrows was the highlight of our trip!
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